Super Prophecy Master

Chapter 61 Fair Competition
The embarrassment of going home at night was just a small episode in life, and Catherine's shyness only lasted for a moment. By the next morning, everything returned to its original appearance.

When Catherine saw Zhang Yang, she still had a sullen face and didn't say hello, as if the two sides didn't know each other at all.

The two are like fire and water.

However, Zhang Yang is a small drop of water, and Catherine is a big flame. Zhang Yang can only stay away quietly, and he has to prevent the flame from erupting and evaporating himself inexplicably.

He sat on the sofa and read the newspaper that had just arrived.

Millwall is in London. The advantage is that many sports media in London will mention a few words in the report. The disadvantage is that they hardly have their own media.

Now is the time to reap the benefits.

Opening the newspaper delivered in the morning, almost all sports media have paid attention to Millwall, perhaps because of the major event that happened in Millwall-Dennis Wise, who is a part-time coach, was seriously injured.

Wise's injury involved too much!

Millwall lost a main midfielder; Millwall lost its only team leader; Millwall lost its only part-time head coach.

The last point has the most impact.

A team leader is not a big deal. A lot of the work of the team leader is repeated with the head coach, especially in small clubs. But without the head coach in the middle of the season, how can we play in future games?

Many media are 'anxious' about this.

It's like a report from "London Sports", "Millwall lost Wise, which is equivalent to losing half of the team! Millwall just won three consecutive league victories, and they didn't enjoy the mood of victory at all. Wise's Injuries are a fatal blow to them! What to do in the second half of the season depends on the decision of the chairman Grigory, but Grigory is devastated by Millwall's financial problems. A lot of debts have to be repaid every month, not only will the head coach be replaced after losing Wise, but their financial situation will also be worse!"

"British Football Daily" also reported that "Millwall will face Waterloo because they can't find someone to replace Wise! At this time, good managers are all on the job, maybe they should consider letting Frederick. There is no cost to coaching, and the new head coach may not be better than Frederick, at least he knows the team very well!"

"The Times" and "The Sun" also mentioned the news of Wise's injury. They only talked a few words in the general news of the British Championship, and the relevant comments were all concerned about the situation of Millwall.

Almost all other sports news in the newspapers has to do with looking ahead to the intense post-Christmas schedule.

Millwall hadn't thought about that yet.

Zhang Yang is also a little worried about the team. He has only been a 'match instructor' for a short time. If there is a major problem with the team, maybe his 'match instructor' won't last long?
This is the most comfortable job he has found.

Zhang Yang sighed regretfully.

However, considering that he signed a 'guarantee contract', he felt that there was nothing to worry about. It would be best for the club to voluntarily dismiss him, and he could get compensation of nearly 20 pounds for three years in one go.

Zhang Yang suddenly became a little worried about gain and loss.

On the one hand, he doesn't really want to lose his job. He has a good life in Millwall. He can still catch up with the enthusiasm for football and manage his coaching career patiently. He may have a good development in the future.

£20 on the other hand.

In his previous life, he had a car and a house, so he was considered an elite member of society, but if his family business is counted together, how many £20 can he have?
This is a choice of preferences, future and money.

In this era of rampant materialism, money is always full of temptations, and Zhang Yang doesn't know how to choose. He can only curse secretly, "Damn money! Come more if you want!"

If it was changed to 200 million or 2000 million pounds, he would not have to choose at all.

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Millwall Club, Chairman's Office.

Grigory, who is the chairman of the club, is already in a hurry.

Hearing the news of Wise's injury, he didn't sleep well all night. Wise was transferred back to London this morning. He went to visit him immediately and got the same diagnosis.

In the next four months, Wise will definitely not be able to serve as the head coach.

a bolt from the blue!

Grigory was almost stunned by the shock. He, who has always been shrewd, also showed an anxious look. He is over 65 years old and past the age of retirement, thinking that he should retire early.

"I'm getting old!" Grigory and Ebenezer complained, "If I were younger, I would definitely be able to figure out a way, but what should we do now? We can't sell another core player and replace him with a different one." A coach who knows where to stay will coach!"

Millwall is really poor!

Even if they sell Scott Dobby in January, they won't be able to raise enough money to pay off the bank debt, let alone spend a lot of money to hire an interim head coach.

If they hired an unknown coach, of course it wouldn't be a big problem. They could still afford a salary of 20 or [-] pounds. The key point is, what is the difference between hiring an unknown coach and promoting an assistant coach in the team?
Maybe not as much as the latter.

The assistant coach at least knows the team very well, and the new coach has to start from scratch.

But big-name coaches, they definitely can't afford to hire them.

It didn’t matter much in the past. Wise led the team’s performance not very well, but relegation can be achieved. As long as the goal of relegation can be achieved, the success of staying in the English Championship, relying on the revenue share of the second-tier league, as long as the belt is tightened, the next The club can survive this season.

There is no way to solve it now.

Ebenezer smiled wryly, "You should be here now. We have only two options. One is to hire outside coaches, and the other is to improve the team's coaches. But considering our situation, there is actually only the latter option left. .”

"You mean to let Frederick coach?" Gregory asked in confirmation.

"Frederick knows the team very well. If he is the head coach, the team can at least play normally."

"But Frederick..." Grigory hesitated, "Can he really be the head coach?" He couldn't believe Frederick's ability. The game field will be more tense than Anthony!"

Anthony Robinson is a talented striker for the Millwall youth team.

He was promoted to the first team at the beginning of the season, and he was trained as a talent in the team, but he played three consecutive substitute games, and was so nervous that he couldn't perform well, so he was sent to the youth team for training.

Ebenezer laughed, "Did you forget there is another one?"

"You mean..."

"Zhang Yang! His command of the game is no worse than Dennis. Frederick is only the coach in name. We can tell him to let him go to the game and listen to Zhang Yang more."

Grigory hesitated, "But I don't think their relationship is good. Will Zhang Yang be willing to assist Frederick?"

"If it were me, I wouldn't want to either." Ebenezer smiled, "But we can give them a fair chance to compete, and let one lose convincingly, the situation will definitely be better."

"fair play?"

"Correct!"

Ebenezer smiled confidently.

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Zhang Yang has five days off.

Five days just passed Christmas, he went out for a stroll quite leisurely, and bought a Christmas tree, small toys, and gifts for use on Christmas Day.

This approach made Catherine's face warmer.

Zhang Yang didn't want to please the female Tyrannosaurus rex, he just wanted to feel the atmosphere of Christmas in Europe on a whim.

That's interesting.

But just when the workers had just moved the Christmas tree into the house and Zhang Yang was about to show off his rare artistic talents, he was called to the Millwall Club by a phone call.

When Zhang Yang came to the chairman's office with doubts, he faced a so-called 'fair competition' topic.

"You mean... let me compete with this guy to be the head coach?" Zhang Yang's expression was very praiseworthy.

"Cough cough..."

Frederick next to him coughed lightly, expressing his dissatisfaction with Zhang Yang calling himself a 'guy'.

Zhang Yang ignored him.

He was so surprised!
In fact, in the past two days, Zhang Yang has also been thinking about the club's situation. In his opinion, the club has only two solutions. One is to hire a new head coach, and the other is to promote Frederick.

The latter is somewhat unacceptable.

If Frederick became the head coach, he felt that he might consider resigning, or he would post more on Weibo during the game. As long as the opponent didn't listen to him, he would use public opinion tools to maintain his authority.

Zhang Yang even thought of a way.

But Ebenezer told him to 'fairly compete' for the head coaching position with Fredrick?

Can I be the head coach?

Zhang Yang was really surprised. It wasn't that he denied his ability, but it's conceivable how much a head coach needs to know. He doesn't even have a basic coaching qualification certificate, and he can only be regarded as a fake fan when dealing with football. What player training, football tactics, contact with the media, handling many affairs of the team, etc., he is completely smeared, most of them don't know, the only thing he can do is direct the game, but direct The game is only part of the job of the head coach.

No matter how open his mind, he never thought that the club would consider him as the head coach.

Is this a trap?
Zhang Yang resolutely refused with suspicion, and he found a good reason, "I refuse!"

"Refused?" Ebenezer and Gregory were quite surprised.

Frederick was full of joy, thinking that this guy still knew himself.

Zhang Yang said seriously, "Yes, I refused, because I only signed a 'match instructor' contract with the club. If I were to be the head coach, I would definitely have to deal with a lot of things. I have no responsibility to do more of these things."

What he meant was that, with the salary of a 'match instructor', it didn't make sense to do the job of a 'hard and tiring' head coach.

This reason is too strong to be refuted.

Ebenezer and Grigory looked at each other, they were a little dumbfounded, this is the first time I heard that some club coaches would refuse to be the head coach, that is a rare opportunity, even if they work for free, there are Many people want to do it.

But the "arranged script" must be performed no matter what, otherwise they will not work for nothing.

So Grigory said with a smile, "If you can compete with Frederick and officially serve as the head coach, the club will give you a raise in salary."

"How much does it increase?"

"Twice...no, three times!" Grigory gritted his teeth, he seemed very reluctant.

Zhang Yang was immediately defeated by the high salary.

In fact, when he refused just now, he regretted it a little bit. Being the head coach is hard work, but it is also squeezed by many people in the coaching industry.

Now you can still get three times the salary... Calculate, the current weekly salary is 1500 pounds, and after the promotion, you can get 4500 pounds, and the annual salary can easily exceed 20 pounds!
This is the legendary step to the sky!

"If that's the case, I agree." Zhang Yang agreed hesitantly and reluctantly. Even if he has been defeated by money, a man should be reserved.

In the end, in the chairman's office, several people agreed that Frederick and Zhang Yang would have a 'fair competition' for the position of head coach.

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PS: Due to life reasons, the update is a bit late, sorry.

(End of this chapter)